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To: i-node who wrote (1125601)	3/20/2019 1:07:03 PM
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" Propaganda at its worst" is the denial coming from your Church of It Ain't Happenin' Now. US Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, National Petroleum Council Documents Show By Guest • Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 13:30 By Kaitlin Sullivan, Climate Liability News. Crossposted from Climate Liability News. A series of newly discovered documents clarify the extent to which the U.S. government, its advisory committees and the fossil fuel industry have understood for decades the impact carbon dioxide emissions would have on the planet. The documents obtained by Climate Liability News show how much the National Petroleum Council(NPC), an oil and natural gas advisory committee to the Secretary of Energy, knew about climate change as far back as the 1970s. A series of reports illuminate the findings of government-contracted research that outlined the dangers associated with increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. They also shed light on how this advisory group to the federal government understood the fossil fuel industry’s contributions to climate change, and unveil the strategies it used to downplay the industry’s role. “These documents reaffirm that, to one extent or another, the fossil fuel industry as a whole has known for decades about the basics of climate change and its implications. But rather than warning the public and taking action, many of them turned around and orchestrated anti-science, anti-policy denial campaigns dwarfing even those of Big Tobacco,” said Geoffrey Supran, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard who has extensively studied those denial campaigns... desmogblog.com